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Learn how to send a clip in Premiere Pro to After Effects using Dynamic Link, to add a fun face-swap effect to a video, before publishing it directly to YouTube or other social media sites with Media Encoder.

To take advantage of compositing tools in After Effects, open rj-face-swap.prproj in Premiere Pro. Next, shift-click to select the two video clips: clip1.mp4 and clip2.mp4. Finally, choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Replace with After Effects Composition. After Effects will open and create a new, linked composition.

Add a face-swap effect in After Effects

To mask the man’s face in clip2 to the body and arm movement of the woman in clip1, RocketJump uses Keylight, the Puppet tool, and rotoscoping to composite the two layers into one and create the face-swap effect.

To play the completed sequence, you must select the After Effects composition in Premiere Pro and select Render and Replace. Or, you can wait until you export your video with Media Encoder in Step 5, which renders the After Effects composition in the video sequence.

Note: If you didn’t follow the RocketJump tutorial, switch to the RJ-face-swap-final tab in your Premiere Pro file to see the updated file with the imported After Effects composition already in place.

Add the RocketJump logo

You can add other clips, such as the RocketJump Film School animated logo. Choose File > Import and then browse to select the RJFS_LOGO.mp4 file. The file appears in the Project panel.

Drag RJFS_LOGO.mp4 to place the clip on the timeline, to the right of the After Effects composition.